The former heavyweight boxing champ devoted a two-hour monologue to telling his side of a roller-coaster life story billed as "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth."

Indianapolis -- the city where Tyson was convicted of one count of rape and two counts of criminal deviate conduct -- is the first stop on a 30-city U.S. tour for "Undisputed Truth." The show debuted in April in Las Vegas, and it played in August on Broadway.

Tyson told an undersized audience (fewer than 2,000 people in a 2,500-capacity room) that his preferred title would have been "Boxing, Bitches and Lawsuits."

On the topic of boxing, Tyson showed persuasive video that he knocked down James "Buster" Douglas long enough to be counted out in the first professional bout that "Iron Mike" lost.

In the coarsely labeled second category, Tyson says he didn't want to talk much about ex-wife Robin Givens because it might fuel an attempt to relaunch her acting career (while noting it's been dormant for two decades).

And lawsuits? Tyson directed vague contempt toward Don King in the boxer's loss of $400 million, but most courtroom talk centered on his criminal rape trial in Indianapolis.

Tyson called his 1992 three-year prison sentence his "worst vacation" but also a blessing that allowed him ample time to think.

Surprising details on the periphery of Tyson's high-profile crime: actress Florence Henderson visited him at the Indiana Youth Center near Plainfield, and he considered Indianapolis a bad luck town dating to an amateur boxing loss in 1982.

Amid coming clean to a wide range of bad behavior, Tyson spoke with conviction when declaring, "I did not rape Desiree Washington, and that's all I'm going to say about it."

The opening-night production featured ups and downs to mirror Tyson's biography. He paid moving tribute to his late mother, sister and daughter, but he struggled with pacing and clarity in the show's final third.